Liskilleen
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Lios Coillín
- Area
- 220.2 ha
- 544 acres
- Land parcels
- 99
- registered freehold, median 4,252 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Liskilleen, from 95 m² to 144,331 m² (14.43 ha, 35.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Liskilleen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 May 2026Conditional
construct extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling house along with all associated services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 26119
19 Sept 2025Conditional
Full Planning Permission is being sought to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560650
29 Apr 2025Conditional
construct extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling house and to install a new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area along with all associated services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25163
28 Feb 2025Conditional
construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2578
15 Oct 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426
3 Nov 2022Conditional
Construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22971
30 Aug 2021Conditional
DEMOLITION OF A NON-HABITABLE HOUSE AND OUTBUILDING, CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CARPORT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21924
15 Apr 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INSTALL AN UPGRADED PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20260
14 Feb 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS, ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLINGHOUSE AND TO INSTALL AN UPGRADED PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2090
24 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION ALTERATIONS AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE AND TO INSTALL AN UPGRADED PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19845
9 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE BEDROOM AND BATHROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19332
15 Oct 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18784
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Liskilleen.
Recorded monuments
- MA110-045 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on top of an E-W running ridge, overlooking Lough Carra to the W. Roughly rectangular in plan (max. dims. H 3.2m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.3m), with main axis orientated NW-SE. It stands on top of a low mound of earth and stone (L 6m E-W; Wth 3m N-S). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 57. Date of upload: 30 October 2013
- MA110-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop ridge. Oval-shaped area (41m N-S; 32m E-W), enclosed by three earthen banks (H 1.9m), with two intervening external fosses. Evidence of stone revetment on banks. Outer bank; levelled N to E. Entrance on E (Wth 2.3m). Gaps on SW, N and NNE. Stone field fence encloses site and partly overlies outer bank. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 188. Date of upload: 30 October 2013
- MA110-055001 Castle - unclassified
Description
In rough pasture. Sod covered remains of rectangular buildings, enclosed by remains of rectangular enclosure (43m N-S; 64m E-W). Interpretation difficult due to ruined state. Owned by Walter MacFiegh in 1574 (Knox 1908, 347). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 697. Date of upload: 30 October 2013
- MA110-055002 Earthwork
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA110-055003 Bawn
Description
An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (Lavelle 1994; p. 102, no. 697) records that the ruins of a castle (MA110-055001-) are enclosed by 'remains of rectangular enclosure (43m N–S; 64m E–W).' Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 October 2013
Architectural heritage
- Liskilleen House, farm house, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built 1862, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay two-storey projecting end bay; four-bay (south) or single-bay (north) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below corbelled stepped chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed rubble limestone walls originally rendered on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on snecked limestone plinth with margined tooled cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing glazed timber panelled door having overlight. Paired square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and repointed cut-limestone voussoirs framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with piers to perimeter supporting replacement spear head-detailed mild steel double gates.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Liskilleen, Ballinrobe7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Liskilleen · Lios Coillín
- Area
- 2,201,834 m² (220.18 ha, 544.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywalter, Cloongowla, Coolylaughnan, Cornfield, Kiltrone, Knockadoon, Rocksborough North, Rocksborough South
- Placenames
- Liskilleen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.